Re: Has any Democrat ever NOT raised taxes??
Sammy, you are way out there. Somebody has "taught" you things that just aren't right, but it's not surprising since you are in the "world" of education.
Let's take your example and dissect it a little bit. Of course, the lion will not share the steak with the kittens; IT'S THE ANIMAL WORLD. He's going to eat the whole steak.
But, if you want to equate that with the capitalist system, you just don't get it. In trickle down economics, a person makes a great salary, say $250,000 a year. He buys a new car every 2-3 years and that puts people to work to manufacture the car. If he makes $1 million a year, he probably buys more than one car every 2-3 years; this puts even more people to work. The manufacturing people have jobs, the sales guy makes a commission for selling the car; everyone benefits. Now the guy takes a vacation with his family. He flies on a plane that is built by Boeing workers in the USA and the pilot and flight crew benefit; he stays at a hotel, and the hotel workers benefit. Then he goes out to dinner and the waiter is great and gets a $100 tip; again, everyone benefits. Then he takes a sunset cruise; the workers on the cruise are great and he leaves a great tip at the end of the night; the bartender is great and she gets a great tip.
Do I need to go on? These are just random examples of activities that go on every day in our economy.
Are you aware of this? Did you ever think that this kind of thing actually happens?
Even if you want to come back with some simple-minded reply about only the rich doing these kind of things, which is not true, trickle down relates to every day activities of people making a salary and spending a portion of their earnings on various things that help to put people to work.
Funny that you keep making this 1950's statement when it is you who, based on your posts, needs to get out more and see some of the world.
College costs are going up because they are run by liberals who spend, spend, spend on unnecessary things including buildings and other things that are not related to basic education. There are so many majors that are not worth the cost of tuition. And you continue to focus on just state colleges and not private colleges, where the same thing is happening. Tuition is increasing way more than the cost of living because the liberals who run the colleges are greedy and spend too much on things that are not related to educating students better. I don't care what the Washington Post says; you should be able to think for yourself.
As far as the need for education, I know a guy who was a science professor at the Oklahoma University. When he was hired, they told him they didn't care about his teaching, they only cared about his research. Now, unlike what you might blurt out, I won't say that this one case translates across the board, but it is an indicator of the priorities of some people who run colleges and universities. And the person who ran the university at that time was a democrat. But that's true in almost all cases.
One last thing: if you want to come back with some story about middle class destruction, keep in mind that as someone moves up and out of the middle class, which many people will do as they advance their careers, there is absolutely no government statistic to measure this. And as people move out of the middle class, the definition of which has never been stated, but for this example, let's say it's anything over $200,000 in annual income, the average income of the remaining people in the middle class is going to go down, but it's not an indicator of the country being worse off. It's that people are moving up in so-called class. You will notice that there aren't any government statistics that are regularly published detailing the number of people in the middle class, upper class, etc. Does this make sense? Can't wait for your reply.
